âA sensitive and powerful memoir of racial change in the South in the 1960s.ââBooklist
In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivesterâs father but her motherâa stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the Southâwho made the most enduring mark on the town.